Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzoh Balls (and Other Lies)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Note
Part One: Arrivals
	The Bernick Family Survival Relay
	Memory Is a Slippery Fish
	“The Great Jewish Invasion“
	Three Jewish Jokes
	Three Minnesota Jokes
	A Departure from “Minnesota Nice“
	A Story Told to Me by Grandpa Izzy
	Aliens from “Dee Olt Countree“
	Decamping to the Suburbs
	Interesting Demographics
	Emigration to Assimilation
	The First Coffee Klatch
	Waikiki Meatballs (Recipe)
	Arlene Wants Nice Lamps—1965
	Making a Betty Crocker Break for It
	Mrs. Minnesota 1964
	Mrs. Jewish Minnesota 1964
	Mrs. Samuel Bernick Reaches for the Crown
	“Husbands of Contestants Wash Dishes“
	Pageant Night—Mrs. Minnesota 1964
	Winners and Losers
	JewishNotChristian
	Mrs. Swanson—1967
	Can’t Hide from the Weather
	Cold Snap
	The Pain Game—1968
	Sewing (In)Sanity
Part Two: Departing from the Story Line
	Another Jewish Joke
	(Re)Constructing the Narrative
	Marriage Go-Round
	Disclaimer
	Arlene Goes AWOL—1968
	Disappearing Act
	Turn Up the Volume—1968
	Missing the Strike Zone
	Exiled to the War Zone—1969
	The Gestalt Prayer
	Revolutionaries
	No Rescue in Sight—1969
	Terra Incognita
	The Swinging Tree
	Stress Fractures
	Bubble-Speak
	Grit
	Out in the Cold
	Abandon (Verb)
	Mutation and Adaptation
	Looking for the Exits
	Snow Bunny Gets Lost in La La Land
	Bad with a Capital BS
	A Real Nightmare
	Remembering and Forgetting
	Truth and Lies
	The Nearest Exit
Epilogue: Evolving Story Lines
Acknowledgments
Appendix
	Selective Timeline of the Jews (and My Family) in Minnesota, 1840–1962
	Selective Timeline of the Jews (and My Family) in the Minneapolis Suburbs of Robbinsdale, Crystal, St. Louis Park, and New Hope, 1950–1970
	Selective Timeline of “the Divorce Revolution,” 1960–1975
	Selective Timeline of the Jews (and My Family) in California, 1945–1973
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author